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Overview
Team members: Guðný and Valdís
Project name: Math Mania
Project tag line: Math tutor for 1st graders
Motivation / Scenario
The object of this program is to teach numbers, addition and multiplication. The tutoring program will be in the form of interactive games, combined with graded quizzes. For each level there is a specific goal to be learned. For first level the goal is to learn the numbers, for the second level the goal is to learn addition etc. A student can then at any time take a quiz in one of the levels, answer a series of question and get a grade on his performance.
Approach
For each level there will be a different game. For the first level the student will control a character running in a 3D environment. The student can click on a number of items and the system gives information on the amount of that item (e.g. students clicks on 2 birds and gets the number 2 on the screen) with the goal being to collect as many items as in a given timeframe. In this way the child is immersed in playing a game and is learning something while doing that.
Independent Study
As our independent study projects Valdís will be consentrating on developing a curriculum that makes good use of VE and Guðný will be consentrating on a pedagodical agent to serve as the tutor in the quiz. Since the project is split into two parts, teaqching and quizzing our emphasis will lie in different parts of the system. The curriculum will be used in the game the pedagodical agent to indicate the quiz results by facial expression.
Prototype
The main emphasis in our project will be the first level of the game, teaching numbers.
References / Links
- Useful links or references to related work.
- http://www.skolavefurinn.is (some need login)